ReadOnly Controls do not post back properly when EnableViewState is false on Page by rstrahl

Thank you for your feedback. We are investigating this issue.

Thank you, VS2005 Product Team.

Thank you for your concern regarding the value of textbox when the viewstate is disabled.

After careful analysis, the explanation for the observed behaviour is that:
With a design change in ASP .NET based on user security concern, the input for a readonly textbox is saved in viewstate, which doesnt happen if viewstate is disabled. To workaround this, a page developer can add the readonly attribute to the TextBox.Attributes collection, which can then be used to access the 'value' of the textbox.

We hope this clarifies. Thank you.
Web Server & Tools

Is there any work around for a label (server control) which is populated by javascript using innerText. Cause label looses its value on postback.

Replace ReadOnly="True" with ContentEditable="False"

Replace ReadOnly="True" with ContentEditable="False"

ContentEditable="False" is not supported by Firefox

You can use onFocus="this.blur();" (for both IE & Firefox)

Example : <asp:TextBox onFocus="this.blur();" ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

txtBoxId.Text = Request[txtBoxId.UniqueID]; in Page_Load seems to sort it

The problem that the server side ignore the value when the property ReadOnly is set to true. all what you have to do:

1. set your textbox ReadOnly = false;
2. Add the following code: textBox.Attributes.Add("readonly","true");

I had the same problem.
Cause I´m not directly using asp:textBox control I was able to override the following method:

Protected Overrides Function LoadPostData(ByVal postDataKey As String, ByVal postCollection As System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection) As Boolean
            Dim oldValue As String = Me.Value
            If Not postCollection(postDataKey) Is Nothing Then
                Me.Value = postCollection(postDataKey)
            Else
                Me.Value = String.Empty
            End If
            Return Me.Value <> oldValue
        End Function

Since then my textBoxes are not loosing the posted values.